Thanks Filip - "Filip Hanik - Dev Lists" <devli...@hanik.com> wrote in message news:4a849eab.4070...@hanik.com...
>> That being said, I was leaning towards using the NIO connector for my >> installation. However, I was pretty surprised and shocked when reading >> "Tomcat - The Definitive Guide 2nd Edition" by Jason Brittain (O'Reilly >> Press), that the JIO was the fastest and most responsive when service >> small >> text files and 9k images. >> (http://books.google.ca/books?id=vJttHyVF0SUC&pg=PA148&lpg=PA148&dq=tomcat+nio+advantage&source=bl&ots=i_8ssSnNf3&sig=MWgnLmZquhONBLLc5ivHQ6F61_Y&hl=en&ei=vwiDSsLgLMeltge4ianFCg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4#v=onepage&q=tomcat%20nio%20advantage&f=false >> pp.138-148). In fact, their published benchmarks should that the JIO >> was >> fastest, followed by APR, followed by NIO. Could that be attributed to >> configuration parameters for the individual connectors? >> > > nope, but one must have very low level understanding on how different > connectors work in order to properly tune them and to choose the right > connector for what situation. > There is also a test where the 9k image and JIO is the slowest one :) Sorry for waking up an old thread, but can you point me to documentation (apart from the ones at tomcat site http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/config/http.html) to help me gain a better understanding of the connector settings? I tried to find reference books, but none that I have found really discuss tuning the NIO or APR connectors. Thanks, Eric --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org